Boater missing on Long Island

July 11, 2009 2:26:41 PM PDT

Eyewitness News

WEST ISLIP --

Police are looking for a Long Island man after his boat was found idling with no one aboard. Suffolk County police believe the 49-year-old man was aboard his 30-foot motor boat when he called a friend from his cell phone shortly before midnight Friday.

The 15-year-old boat was found around 2:30 a.m. Saturday with its motor running and its lights on. It was about 50 yards from shore near the Babylon Yacht Club in West Islip.